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Man caught 4 years after police say he had sex with girl, 14

Star report
12:41 p.m. EST January 18, 2014

David M. Walsh, 50, Devens, Mass., was arrested on Friday, Dec. 17, 2014, by Indiana State Police and preliminarily charged with sexual misconduct and solicitation via the Internet after a nearly four-year investigation. He is accused of having sex in November 2009 with a 14-year-old female that he initially met over the Internet.

A Massachusetts man was arrested Friday, after he returned to Indiana to reunite with an 18-year-old girl that he met online and is accused of having sex with four years earlier.

David M. Walsh, 50, Devens, Mass., was arrested and preliminarily charged with sexual misconduct and solicitation via the Internet after a nearly four-year investigation, according to a news release from Sgt. Jerry D. Goodin, spokesman for the Sellersburg post of the Indiana State Police.

Walsh was arrested in the Borden, Ind., area, the release said, after State Police investigators learned earlier this month that he planned to be in Indiana to meet with the girl, whom he had stayed in contact with, and her family.

According to State Police, Walsh, when he was 46, contacted the girl on the Internet in when she was 14 years old, arranged to meet with her at a home in Washington County in November 2009 and had sex with her even though he knew she was a juvenile at the time of the encounter.

He acted under an alias, which made it difficult for officers to locate him, State Police said. There may be other sexual-assault victims, State Police said.

Walsh is being held in the Washington County Jail awaiting his first court appearance.